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Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:24:17 GMT2015-03-03T20:24:17ZFuture control of food : a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity and food security [Chinese version]http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/53556
Title: Future control of food : a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity and food security [Chinese version]
Authors: Tansey, Geoff; Rajotte, Tasmin; Quaker International Affairs Programme (QIAP)
Abstract: This book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity, and food security. Proceeding from an introduction and overview of the issues, comprehensive chapters cover negotiations and instruments in the World Trade Organization, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, and various other international bodies. The final part discusses civil society responses to relevant changes and developments in these issues, how they affect the direction of research and development, the nature of global negotiation processes and various alternative futures.
Description: Library has English version; Library has Spanish version: Control futuro de los alimentos : guía de las negociaciones y reglas internacionales sobre la propiedad intelectual, la biodiversidad y la seguridad alimentariaTue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/535562008-01-01T00:00:00ZDéchets électroniques et informatiques en Afrique : défis et opportunités pour un développement durable au Bénin, au Mali et au Sénégalhttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/52496
Title: Déchets électroniques et informatiques en Afrique : défis et opportunités pour un développement durable au Bénin, au Mali et au Sénégal
Authors: Diop, Cheikh; Thioune, Ramata Molo
Abstract: L’insertion dans la société de l’information doit-elle se réaliser sans évaluer les risques créés par les équipements déversés dans les pays africains ? Quels mécanismes et stratégies ces pays, consommateurs de produits informatiques et électroniques souvent en fin de cycle, doivent-ils mettre en place pour concilier un engagement résolu dans l’économie de l’information et le respect de l’environnement ? Quelles sont les capacités spécifiques nécessaires pour faire face à ce dilemme ? Autant de questions qui interpellent chercheurs, décideurs et acteurs du développement.
À partir d’un état des lieux, réalisé dans trois pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Mali et Sénégal), cet ouvrage montre que les problématiques des déchets électroniques sont encore trop souvent sous estimées par la recherche comme pour les politiques publiques. Rares sont les études et les enquêtes sur ces questions qui permettraient pourtant de prendre les décisions adéquates en vue d’une meilleure gestion et d’une valorisation des déchets.
Dans une perspective croisée intégrant l’analyse du contexte institutionnel et juridico-légal, la situation économique et environnementale au Bénin, au Mali et au Sénégal, la recherche pionnière dont est issue cette publication permet une réflexion sur les pratiques actuelles, pour relever les opportunités et les défis que représentent la gestion et une valorisation réelle des déchets électroniques et informatiques. Il offre ainsi une base objective pour l’élaboration de stratégies, de politiques et de programmes visant à assurer un développement durable préservant la santé et l’environnement.
Description: Publié conjointement avec les Éditions KarthalaWed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/524962014-01-01T00:00:00ZValuing the environment : economics for a sustainable future [Arabic version]http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/51305
Title: Valuing the environment : economics for a sustainable future [Arabic version]
Authors: Glover, David
Abstract: A vast number of people in developing countries depend on the natural environment for their livelihoods — on farmland or forests, wetlands or coastal areas. For these people, the environment is much more than a source of recreation — it is the basis of the economy. But poorly functioning markets, incomplete property rights, and misguided policies can drive people’s behaviour in ways that are rational in the short term or from an individual’s point of view, but harmful to the environment and future generations. Economics has much to offer in understanding and influencing this behaviour. It also provides tools for decision-makers faced with difficult choices. How can we compare the value of environmental benefits to the costs of safeguarding them? How can we assess the impacts of environmental action (or inaction) on the poor? How should we share the costs of improvements? This book shows how researchers from four of IDRC’s regional environmental economics networks have dealt with questions like these in a wide variety of situations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It brings together insights from more than 15 years of research and assesses their impact on policy and the research community. It concludes by looking at the future of environmental economics in the developing regions of the world. For more analysis, discussion, and case material, visit the companion website, www.idrc.ca/in_focus_environment, which is included with the book, on CD.
Description: Co-published with the Arab Scientific Publishers; Library has English version; Library has French version: Valeur de l'environnement : faire appel à l'économie pour forger un avenir sous le signe de la durabilité; Library has Spanish version: Valorizar el medio ambiente : economía para un futuro sostenibleSat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/513052011-01-01T00:00:00ZConservation and sustainable development : linking practice and policy in Eastern Africahttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50057
Title: Conservation and sustainable development : linking practice and policy in Eastern Africa
Authors: Davies, Jonathan
Abstract: The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are
often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and
implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many
science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research with the
aim of influencing policy, but often their influence is much less than intended.
Understanding who influences policy at different levels, and how, is crucial
to ensure that science is deployed most effectively so as to have an influence on
conservation and natural resource management.
Conservation and Sustainable Development presents a variety of innovative ways
that have been used to influence policy processes, from community pressure
groups through elected and unelected leaders, to scientific discourse at the levels
of directors of economic planning and conservation. This book analyzes experi -
ences from a variety of conservation interventions by the International Union
for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other agencies, primarily in Eastern Africa,
and challenges the notion of policymaking as a cyclical process. It elaborates on
this theme and presents an array of examples of how communities have influenced
government, through direct lobbying, influence of parlia mentarians, wielding of
science and research, and inter-community dialogue, networking and solidarity.
The authors present a framework for understanding and strategizing such work
so that other institutions can identify where they can best add value.
Description: Co-published with RoutledgeSun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/500572012-01-01T00:00:00ZCustodians of biodiversity : sharing access and benefits to genetic resourceshttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/47481
Title: Custodians of biodiversity : sharing access and benefits to genetic resources
Editors: Ruiz, Manuel; Vernooy, Ronnie
Abstract: Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop
improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many
communities have to deal with “biopiracy,” for example. As well, existing laws
are usually unsuitable for protecting indigenous and traditional knowledge and for
recognizing collective rights, such as in cases of participatory plant breeding,
where farmers, researchers and others join forces to improve existing crop
varieties or develop new ones, based on shared knowledge and resources.
This book addresses these issues. It outlines the national and international
policy processes that are currently underway to protect local genetic resources
and related traditional knowledge and the challenges these initiatives have faced.
In particular these themes are addressed within the context of the Convention on
Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for
Food and Agriculture. The authors broaden the policy and legal debates beyond
the sphere of policy experts to include the knowledge-holders themselves.
These are the “custodians of biodiversity:” farmers, herders and fishers in local
communities. Their experience in sharing access and benefits to genetic resources
is shown to be crucial for the development of effective national and international
agreements. The book presents and analyzes this experience, including case
studies from China, Cuba, Honduras, Jordan, Nepal, Peru and Syria.
Description: Co-published with EarthscanSat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/474812011-01-01T00:00:00Z